I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

I just have to have something to do. I could live 'til 100.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

To me, all movies are very personal.

Anything can be made funny. Humor is a magnifying glass for us to look at society, ourselves, our personalities, our problems. Humor is what we need to actually observe things.

Whatever success I've got has come after like eight years of just nothing working out, trying to get a job in film.

I was trying to create the most exciting action sequence in the history of cinema. It took me about a year to write the final fight sequence alone.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.